|  | This file documents changes for QEMU releases 0.12 and earlier. | 
|  | For changelog information for later releases, see | 
|  | http://wiki.qemu-project.org/ChangeLog or look at the git history for | 
|  | more detailed information. | 
|  |  | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.12.0: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - Update to SeaBIOS 0.5.0 | 
|  | - e1000: fix device link status in Linux (Anthony Liguori) | 
|  | - monitor: fix QMP for balloon command (Luiz Capitulino) | 
|  | - QMP: Return an empty dict by default (Luiz Capitulino) | 
|  | - QMP: Only handle converted commands (Luiz Capitulino) | 
|  | - pci: support PCI based option rom loading (Gerd Hoffman/Anthony Liguori) | 
|  | - Fix backcompat for hotplug of SCSI controllers (Daniel P. Berrange) | 
|  | - fdc: fix migration from 0.11 (Juan Quintela) | 
|  | - vmware-vga: fix segv on cursor resize. (Dave Airlie) | 
|  | - vmware-vga: various fixes (Dave Airlie/Anthony Liguori) | 
|  | - qdev: improve property error reporting. (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - fix vga names in default_list (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - usb-host: check mon before using it. (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - usb-net: use qdev for -usbdevice (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - monitor: Catch printing to non-existent monitor (Luiz Capitulino) | 
|  | - Avoid permanently disabled QEMU monitor when UNIX migration fails (Daniel P. Berrange) | 
|  | - Fix loading of ELF multiboot kernels (Kevin Wolf) | 
|  | - qemu-io: Fix memory leak (Kevin Wolf) | 
|  | - Fix thinko in linuxboot.S (Paolo Bonzini) | 
|  | - target-i386: Fix evaluation of DR7 register (Jan Kiszka) | 
|  | - vnc: hextile: do not generate ForegroundSpecified and SubrectsColoured tiles (Anthony Liguori) | 
|  | - S390: Bail out without KVM (Alexander Graf) | 
|  | - S390: Don't tell guest we're updating config space (Alexander Graf) | 
|  | - target-s390: Fail on unknown instructions (Alexander Graf) | 
|  | - osdep: Fix runtime failure on older Linux kernels (Andre Przywara) | 
|  | - Fix a make -j race (Juergen Lock) | 
|  | - target-alpha: Fix generic ctz64. (Richard Henderson) | 
|  | - s390: Fix buggy assignment (Stefan Weil) | 
|  | - target-mips: fix user-mode emulation startup (Nathan Froyd) | 
|  | - target-i386: Update CPUID feature set for TCG (Andre Przywara) | 
|  | - s390: fix build on 32 bit host (Michael S. Tsirkin) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.12.0-rc2: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - v2: properly save kvm system time msr registers (Glauber Costa) | 
|  | - convert more monitor commands to qmp (Luiz Capitulino) | 
|  | - vnc: fix capslock tracking logic. (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - QemuOpts: allow larger option values. (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - scsi: fix drive hotplug. (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - pci: don't hw_error() when no slot is available. (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - pci: don't abort() when trying to hotplug with acpi off. (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - allow default devices to be implemented in config file (Gerd Hoffman) | 
|  | - vc: colorize chardev title line with blue background. (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - chardev: make chardevs specified in config file work. (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - qdev: also match bus name for global properties (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - qdev: add command line option to set global defaults for properties. (Gerd Hoffmann) | 
|  | - kvm: x86: Save/restore exception_index (Jan Kiszka) | 
|  | - qdev: Replace device names containing whitespace (Markus Armbruster) | 
|  | - fix rtc-td-hack on host without high-res timers (Gleb Natapov) | 
|  | - virtio: verify features on load (Michael S. Tsirkin) | 
|  | - vmware_vga: add rom file so that it boots. (Dave Airlie) | 
|  | - Do not abort on qemu_malloc(0) in production builds (Anthony Liguori) | 
|  | - Fix ARM userspace strex implementation. (Paul Brook) | 
|  | - qemu: delete rule target on error (Michael S. Tsirkin) | 
|  | - QMP: add human-readable description to error response (Markus Armbruster) | 
|  | - convert more monitor commands to QError (Markus Armbruster) | 
|  | - monitor: Fix double-prompt after "change vnc passwd BLA" (Markus Armbruster) | 
|  | - monitor: do_cont(): Don't ask for passwords (Luiz Capitulino) | 
|  | - monitor: Introduce 'block_passwd' command (Luiz Capitulino) | 
|  | - pci: interrupt disable bit support (Michael S. Tsirkin) | 
|  | - pci: interrupt status bit implementation (Michael S. Tsirkin) | 
|  | - pci: prepare irq code for interrupt state (Michael S. Tsirkin) | 
|  | - msix: function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin) | 
|  | - msix: macro rename for function mask support (Michael S. Tsirkin) | 
|  | - cpuid: Fix multicore setup on Intel (Andre Przywara) | 
|  | - kvm: x86: Fix initial kvm_has_msr_star (Jan Kiszka) | 
|  | - Update OpenBIOS images to r640 (Aurelien Jarno) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.10.2: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - fix savevm/loadvm (Anthony Liguori) | 
|  | - live migration: fix dirty tracking windows (Glauber Costa) | 
|  | - live migration: improve error propagation (Glauber Costa) | 
|  | - qcow2: fix image creation for > ~2TB images (Chris Wright) | 
|  | - hotplug: fix error handling for if= parameter (Eduardo Habkost) | 
|  | - qcow2: fix data corruption (Nolan Leake) | 
|  | - virtio: fix guest oops with 2.6.25 kernels (Rusty Russell) | 
|  | - SH4: add support for -kernel (Takashi Yoshii, Aurelien Jarno) | 
|  | - hotplug: fix closing of char devices (Jan Kiszka) | 
|  | - hotplug: remove incorrect check for device name (Eduardo Habkost) | 
|  | - enable -k on win32 (Herve Poussineau) | 
|  | - configure: use LANG=C for grep (Andreas Faerber) | 
|  | - fix VGA regression (malc) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.10.1: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - virtio-net: check right return size on sg list (Alex Williamson) | 
|  | - Make qemu_announce_self handle holes (live migration after hotplug) | 
|  | (Marcelo Tosatti) | 
|  | - Revert r6804-r6808 (qcow2 allocation info).  This series of changes added | 
|  | a high cost to startup for large qcow2 images (Anthony Liguori) | 
|  | - qemu-img: fix help message (Aurelien Jarno) | 
|  | - Fix build for non-default installs of SDL (Anthony Liguori) | 
|  | - Fix race condition in env->interrupt_request.  When using TCG and a dynticks | 
|  | host timer, this condition could cause TCG to get stuck in an infinite | 
|  | loop (Aurelien Jarno) | 
|  | - Fix reading encrypted hard disk passwords during early startup (Jan Kiszka) | 
|  | - Fix encrypted disk reporting in 'info block' (Jan Kiszka) | 
|  | - Fix console size with tiny displays (MusicPal) (Jan Kiszka) | 
|  | - Improve error handling in bdrv_open2 (Jan Kiszka) | 
|  | - Avoid leaking data in mux'ed character devices (Jan Kiszka) | 
|  | - Fix initial character device reset (no banner in monitor) (Jan Kiszka) | 
|  | - Fix cpuid KVM crash on i386 host (Lubomir Rintel) | 
|  | - Fix SLES10sp2 installation by adding ISTAT1 register to LSI SCSI emulation | 
|  | (Ryan Harper) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.10.0: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - TCG support (No longer requires GCC 3.x) | 
|  | - Kernel Virtual Machine acceleration support | 
|  | - BSD userspace emulation | 
|  | - Bluetooth emulation and host passthrough support | 
|  | - GDB XML register description support | 
|  | - Intel e1000 emulation | 
|  | - HPET emulation | 
|  | - VirtIO paravirtual device support | 
|  | - Marvell 88w8618 / MusicPal emulation | 
|  | - Nokia N-series tablet emulation / OMAP2 processor emulation | 
|  | - PCI hotplug support | 
|  | - Live migration and new save/restore formats | 
|  | - Curses display support | 
|  | - qemu-nbd utility to mount supported block formats | 
|  | - Altivec support in PPC emulation and new firmware (OpenBIOS) | 
|  | - Multiple VNC clients are now supported | 
|  | - TLS encryption is now supported in VNC | 
|  | - MIPS Magnum R4000 machine (Hervé Poussineau) | 
|  | - Braille support (Samuel Thibault) | 
|  | - Freecom MusicPal system emulation (Jan Kiszka) | 
|  | - OMAP242x and Nokia N800, N810 machines (Andrzej Zaborowski) | 
|  | - EsounD audio driver (Frederick Reeve) | 
|  | - Gravis Ultrasound GF1 sound card (Tibor "TS" Schütz) | 
|  | - Many, many, bug fixes and new features | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.9.1: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - TFTP booting from host directory (Anthony Liguori, Erwan Velu) | 
|  | - Tap device emulation for Solaris (Sittichai Palanisong) | 
|  | - Monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels (Jason Wessel) | 
|  | - ds1225y nvram support (Herve Poussineau) | 
|  | - CPU model selection support (J. Mayer, Paul Brook, Herve Poussineau) | 
|  | - Several Sparc fixes (Aurelien Jarno, Blue Swirl, Robert Reif) | 
|  | - MIPS 64-bit FPU support (Thiemo Seufer) | 
|  | - Xscale PDA emulation (Andrzej Zaborowski) | 
|  | - ColdFire system emulation (Paul Brook) | 
|  | - Improved SH4 support (Magnus Damm) | 
|  | - MIPS64 support (Aurelien Jarno, Thiemo Seufer) | 
|  | - Preliminary Alpha guest support (J. Mayer) | 
|  | - Read-only support for Parallels disk images (Alex Beregszaszi) | 
|  | - SVM (x86 virtualization) support (Alexander Graf) | 
|  | - CRIS emulation (Edgar E. Iglesias) | 
|  | - SPARC32PLUS execution support (Blue Swirl) | 
|  | - MIPS mipssim pseudo machine (Thiemo Seufer) | 
|  | - Strace for Linux userland emulation (Stuart Anderson, Thayne Harbaugh) | 
|  | - OMAP310 MPU emulation plus Palm T|E machine (Andrzej Zaborowski) | 
|  | - ARM v6, v7, NEON SIMD and SMP emulation (Paul Brook/CodeSourcery) | 
|  | - Gumstix boards: connex and verdex emulation (Thorsten Zitterell) | 
|  | - Intel mainstone II board emulation (Armin Kuster) | 
|  | - VMware SVGA II graphics card support (Andrzej Zaborowski) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.9.0: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - Support for relative paths in backing files for disk images | 
|  | - Async file I/O API | 
|  | - New qcow2 disk image format | 
|  | - Support of multiple VM snapshots | 
|  | - Linux: specific host CDROM and floppy support | 
|  | - SMM support | 
|  | - Moved PCI init, MP table init and ACPI table init to Bochs BIOS | 
|  | - Support for MIPS32 Release 2 instruction set (Thiemo Seufer) | 
|  | - MIPS Malta system emulation (Aurelien Jarno, Stefan Weil) | 
|  | - Darwin userspace emulation (Pierre d'Herbemont) | 
|  | - m68k user support (Paul Brook) | 
|  | - several x86 and x86_64 emulation fixes | 
|  | - Mouse relative offset VNC extension (Anthony Liguori) | 
|  | - PXE boot support (Anthony Liguori) | 
|  | - '-daemonize' option (Anthony Liguori) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.8.2: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - ACPI support | 
|  | - PC VGA BIOS fixes | 
|  | - switch to OpenBios for SPARC targets (Blue Swirl) | 
|  | - VNC server fixes | 
|  | - MIPS FPU support (Marius Groeger) | 
|  | - Solaris/SPARC host support (Juergen Keil) | 
|  | - PPC breakpoints and single stepping (Jason Wessel) | 
|  | - USB updates (Paul Brook) | 
|  | - UDP/TCP/telnet character devices (Jason Wessel) | 
|  | - Windows sparse file support (Frediano Ziglio) | 
|  | - RTL8139 NIC TCP segmentation offloading (Igor Kovalenko) | 
|  | - PCNET NIC support (Antony T Curtis) | 
|  | - Support for variable frequency host CPUs | 
|  | - Workaround for win32 SMP hosts | 
|  | - Support for AMD Flash memories (Jocelyn Mayer) | 
|  | - Audio capture to WAV files support (malc) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.8.1: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - USB tablet support (Brad Campbell, Anthony Liguori) | 
|  | - win32 host serial support (Kazu) | 
|  | - PC speaker support (Joachim Henke) | 
|  | - IDE LBA48 support (Jens Axboe) | 
|  | - SSE3 support | 
|  | - Solaris port (Juergen Keil) | 
|  | - Preliminary SH4 target (Samuel Tardieu) | 
|  | - VNC server (Anthony Liguori) | 
|  | - slirp fixes (Ed Swierk et al.) | 
|  | - USB fixes | 
|  | - ARM Versatile Platform Baseboard emulation (Paul Brook) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.8.0: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - ARM system emulation: Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026ej-s | 
|  | cpu (Paul Brook) | 
|  | - SMP support | 
|  | - Mac OS X cocoa improvements (Mike Kronenberg) | 
|  | - Mac OS X CoreAudio driver (Mike Kronenberg) | 
|  | - DirectSound driver (malc) | 
|  | - ALSA audio driver (malc) | 
|  | - new audio options: '-soundhw' and '-audio-help' (malc) | 
|  | - ES1370 PCI audio device (malc) | 
|  | - Initial USB support | 
|  | - Linux host serial port access | 
|  | - Linux host low level parallel port access | 
|  | - New network emulation code supporting VLANs. | 
|  | - MIPS and MIPSel User Linux emulation | 
|  | - MIPS fixes to boot Linux (Daniel Jacobowitz) | 
|  | - NX bit support | 
|  | - Initial SPARC SMP support (Blue Swirl) | 
|  | - Major overhaul of the virtual FAT driver for read/write support | 
|  | (Johannes Schindelin) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.7.2: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - x86_64 fixes (Win2000 and Linux 2.6 boot in 32 bit) | 
|  | - merge self modifying code handling in dirty ram page mecanism. | 
|  | - MIPS fixes (Ralf Baechle) | 
|  | - better user net performances | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.7.1: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - read-only Virtual FAT support (Johannes Schindelin) | 
|  | - Windows 2000 install disk full hack (original idea from Vladimir | 
|  | N. Oleynik) | 
|  | - VMDK disk image creation (Filip Navara) | 
|  | - SPARC64 progress (Blue Swirl) | 
|  | - initial MIPS support (Jocelyn mayer) | 
|  | - MIPS improvements (Ralf Baechle) | 
|  | - 64 bit fixes in user networking (initial patch by Gwenole Beauchesne) | 
|  | - IOAPIC support (Filip Navara) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.7.0: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - better BIOS translation and HDD geometry auto-detection | 
|  | - user mode networking bug fix | 
|  | - undocumented FPU ops support | 
|  | - Cirrus VGA: support for 1280x1024x[8,15,16] modes | 
|  | - 'pidfile' option | 
|  | - .dmg disk image format support (Johannes Schindelin) | 
|  | - keymaps support (initial patch by Johannes Schindelin) | 
|  | - big endian ARM support (Lennert Buytenhek) | 
|  | - added generic 64 bit target support | 
|  | - x86_64 target support | 
|  | - initial APIC support | 
|  | - MMX/SSE/SSE2/PNI support | 
|  | - PC parallel port support (Mark Jonckheere) | 
|  | - initial SPARC64 support (Blue Swirl) | 
|  | - SPARC target boots Linux (Blue Swirl) | 
|  | - armv5te user mode support (Paul Brook) | 
|  | - ARM VFP support (Paul Brook) | 
|  | - ARM "Angel" semihosting syscalls (Paul Brook) | 
|  | - user mode gdb stub support (Paul Brook) | 
|  | - Samba 3 support | 
|  | - initial Cocoa support (Pierre d'Herbemont) | 
|  | - generic FPU emulation code | 
|  | - Virtual PC read-only disk image support (Alex Beregszaszi) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.6.1: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - Mac OS X port (Pierre d'Herbemont) | 
|  | - Virtual console support | 
|  | - Better monitor line edition | 
|  | - New block device layer | 
|  | - New 'qcow' growable disk image support with AES encryption and | 
|  | transparent decompression | 
|  | - VMware 3 and 4 read-only disk image support (untested) | 
|  | - Support for up to 4 serial ports | 
|  | - TFTP server support (Magnus Damm) | 
|  | - Port redirection support in user mode networking | 
|  | - Support for not executable data sections | 
|  | - Compressed loop disk image support (Johannes Schindelin) | 
|  | - Level triggered IRQ fix (aka NE2000 PCI performance fix) (Steve | 
|  | Wormley) | 
|  | - Fixed Fedora Core 2 problems (now you can run qemu without any | 
|  | LD_ASSUME_KERNEL tricks on FC2) | 
|  | - DHCP fix for Windows (accept DHCPREQUEST alone) | 
|  | - SPARC system emulation (Blue Swirl) | 
|  | - Automatic Samba configuration for host file access from Windows. | 
|  | - '-loadvm' and '-full-screen' options | 
|  | - ne2000 savevm support (Johannes Schindelin) | 
|  | - Ctrl-Alt is now the default grab key. Ctrl-Alt-[0-9] switches to | 
|  | the virtual consoles. | 
|  | - BIOS floppy fix for NT4 (Mike Nordell, Derek Fawcus, Volker Ruppert) | 
|  | - Floppy fixes for NT4 and NT5 (Mike Nordell) | 
|  | - NT4 IDE fixes (Ben Pfaf, Mike Nordell) | 
|  | - SDL Audio support and SB16 fixes (malc) | 
|  | - ENTER instruction bug fix (initial patch by Stefan Kisdaroczi) | 
|  | - VGA font change fix | 
|  | - VGA read-only CRTC register fix | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.6.0: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - minimalist FPU exception support (NetBSD FPU probe fix) | 
|  | - cr0.ET fix (Win95 boot) | 
|  | - *BSD port (Markus Niemisto) | 
|  | - I/O access fix (signaled by Mark Jonckheere) | 
|  | - IDE drives serial number fix (Mike Nordell) | 
|  | - int13 CDROM BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 install CD fix) | 
|  | - int15, ah=86 BIOS fix (aka Solaris x86 hardware probe hang up fix) | 
|  | - BSR/BSF "undefined behaviour" fix | 
|  | - vmdk2raw: convert VMware disk images to raw images | 
|  | - PCI support | 
|  | - NE2K PCI support | 
|  | - dummy VGA PCI support | 
|  | - VGA font selection fix (Daniel Serpell) | 
|  | - PIC reset fix (Hidemi KAWAI) | 
|  | - PIC spurious irq support (aka Solaris install bug) | 
|  | - added '-localtime' option | 
|  | - Cirrus CL-GD54xx VGA support (initial patch by Makoto Suzuki (suzu)) | 
|  | - APM and system shutdown support | 
|  | - Fixed system reset | 
|  | - Support for other PC BIOSes | 
|  | - Initial PowerMac hardware emulation | 
|  | - PowerMac/PREP OpenFirmware compatible BIOS (Jocelyn Mayer) | 
|  | - initial IDE BMDMA support (needed for Darwin x86) | 
|  | - Set the default memory size for PC emulation to 128 MB | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.5.5: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - SDL full screen support (initial patch by malc) | 
|  | - VGA support on PowerPC PREP | 
|  | - VBE fixes (Matthew Mastracci) | 
|  | - PIT fixes (aka Win98 hardware probe and "VGA slowness" bug) | 
|  | - IDE master only fixes (aka Win98 CD-ROM probe bug) | 
|  | - ARM load/store half word fix (Ulrich Hecht) | 
|  | - FDC fixes for Win98 | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.5.4: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - qemu-fast fixes | 
|  | - BIOS area protection fix (aka EMM386.EXE fix) (Mike Nordell) | 
|  | - keyboard/mouse fix (Mike Nordell) | 
|  | - IDE fixes (Linux did not recognized slave drivers) | 
|  | - VM86 EIP masking fix (aka NT5 install fix) (Mike Nordell) | 
|  | - QEMU can now boot a PowerPC Linux kernel (Jocelyn Mayer) | 
|  | - User mode network stack | 
|  | - imul imm8 fix + 0x82 opcode support (Hidemi KAWAI) | 
|  | - precise self modifying code (aka BeOS install bug) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.5.3: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - added Bochs VESA VBE support | 
|  | - VGA memory map mode 3 access fix (OS/2 install fix) | 
|  | - IDE fixes (Jens Axboe) | 
|  | - CPU interrupt fixes | 
|  | - fixed various TLB invalidation cases (NT install) | 
|  | - fixed cr0.WP semantics (XP install) | 
|  | - direct chaining support for SPARC and PowerPC (faster) | 
|  | - ARM NWFPE support (initial patch by Ulrich Hecht) | 
|  | - added specific x86 to x86 translator (close to native performance | 
|  | in qemu-i386 and qemu-fast) | 
|  | - shm syscalls support (Paul McKerras) | 
|  | - added accurate CR0.MP/ME/TS emulation | 
|  | - fixed DMA memory write access (Win95 boot floppy fix) | 
|  | - graphical x86 linux loader | 
|  | - command line monitor | 
|  | - generic removable device support | 
|  | - support of CD-ROM change | 
|  | - multiple network interface support | 
|  | - initial x86-64 host support (Gwenole Beauchesne) | 
|  | - lret to outer privilege fix (OS/2 install fix) | 
|  | - task switch fixes (SkyOS boot) | 
|  | - VM save/restore commands | 
|  | - new timer API | 
|  | - more precise RTC emulation (periodic timers + time updates) | 
|  | - Win32 port (initial patch by Kazu) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.5.2: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - improved soft MMU speed (assembly functions and specializing) | 
|  | - improved multitasking speed by avoiding flushing TBs when | 
|  | switching tasks | 
|  | - improved qemu-fast speed | 
|  | - improved self modifying code handling (big performance gain in | 
|  | softmmu mode). | 
|  | - fixed IO checking | 
|  | - fixed CD-ROM detection (win98 install CD) | 
|  | - fixed addseg real mode bug (GRUB boot fix) | 
|  | - added ROM memory support (win98 boot) | 
|  | - fixed 'call Ev' in case of paging exception | 
|  | - updated the script 'qemu-binfmt-conf.sh' to use QEMU automagically | 
|  | when launching executables for the supported target CPUs. | 
|  | - PowerPC system emulation update (Jocelyn Mayer) | 
|  | - PC floppy emulation and DMA fixes (Jocelyn Mayer) | 
|  | - polled mode for PIC (Jocelyn Mayer) | 
|  | - fixed PTE dirty bit handling | 
|  | - fixed xadd same reg bug | 
|  | - fixed cmpxchg exception safeness | 
|  | - access to virtual memory in gdb stub | 
|  | - task gate and NT flag fixes | 
|  | - eflags optimisation fix for string operations | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.5.1: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - float access fixes when using soft mmu | 
|  | - PC emulation support on PowerPC | 
|  | - A20 support | 
|  | - IDE CD-ROM emulation | 
|  | - ARM fixes (Ulrich Hecht) | 
|  | - SB16 emulation (malc) | 
|  | - IRET and INT fixes in VM86 mode with IOPL=3 | 
|  | - Port I/Os use TSS io map | 
|  | - Full task switching/task gate support | 
|  | - added verr, verw, arpl, fcmovxx | 
|  | - PowerPC target support (Jocelyn Mayer) | 
|  | - Major SPARC target fixes (dynamically linked programs begin to work) | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.5.0: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - full hardware level VGA emulation | 
|  | - graphical display with SDL | 
|  | - added PS/2 mouse and keyboard emulation | 
|  | - popw (%esp) fix | 
|  | - mov to/from segment data width fix | 
|  | - added real mode support | 
|  | - added Bochs BIOS and LGPL'ed VGA BIOS loader in qemu | 
|  | - m68k host port (Richard Zidlicky) | 
|  | - partial soft MMU support for memory mapped I/Os | 
|  | - multi-target build | 
|  | - fixed: no error code in hardware interrupts | 
|  | - fixed: pop ss, mov ss, x and sti disable hardware irqs for the next insn | 
|  | - correct single stepping through string operations | 
|  | - preliminary SPARC target support (Thomas M. Ogrisegg) | 
|  | - tun-fd option (Rusty Russell) | 
|  | - automatic IDE geometry detection | 
|  | - renamed 'vl' to qemu[-fast] and user qemu to qemu-{cpu}. | 
|  | - added man page | 
|  | - added full soft mmu mode to launch unpatched OSes. | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.4.3: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - x86 exception fix in case of nop instruction. | 
|  | - gcc 3.2.2 bug workaround (RedHat 9 fix) | 
|  | - sparc and Alpha host fixes | 
|  | - many ARM target fixes: 'ls' and 'bash' can be launched. | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.4.2: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - many exception handling fixes (can compile a Linux kernel inside vl) | 
|  | - IDE emulation support | 
|  | - initial GDB stub support | 
|  | - deferred update support for disk images (Rusty Russell) | 
|  | - accept User Mode Linux Copy On Write disk images | 
|  | - SMP kernels can at least be booted | 
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|  | version 0.4.1: | 
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|  | - more accurate timer support in vl. | 
|  | - more reliable NE2000 probe in vl. | 
|  | - added 2.5.66 kernel in vl-test. | 
|  | - added VLTMPDIR environment variable in vl. | 
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|  | version 0.4: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - initial support for ring 0 x86 processor emulation | 
|  | - fixed signal handling for correct dosemu DPMI emulation | 
|  | - fast x86 MMU emulation with mmap() | 
|  | - fixed popl (%esp) case | 
|  | - Linux kernel can be executed by QEMU with the 'vl' command. | 
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|  | version 0.3: | 
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|  | - initial support for ARM emulation | 
|  | - added fnsave, frstor, fnstenv, fldenv FPU instructions | 
|  | - added FPU register save in signal emulation | 
|  | - initial ARM port | 
|  | - Sparc and Alpha ports work on the regression test | 
|  | - generic ioctl number conversion | 
|  | - fixed ioctl type conversion | 
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|  | version 0.2: | 
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|  | - PowerPC disassembly and ELF symbols output (Rusty Russell) | 
|  | - flock support (Rusty Russell) | 
|  | - ugetrlimit support (Rusty Russell) | 
|  | - fstat64 fix (Rusty Russell) | 
|  | - initial Alpha port (Falk Hueffner) | 
|  | - initial IA64 port (Matt Wilson) | 
|  | - initial Sparc and Sparc64 port (David S. Miller) | 
|  | - added HLT instruction | 
|  | - LRET instruction fix. | 
|  | - added GPF generation for I/Os. | 
|  | - added INT3 and TF flag support. | 
|  | - SHL instruction C flag fix. | 
|  | - mmap emulation for host page size > 4KB | 
|  | - self-modifying code support | 
|  | - better VM86 support (dosemu works on non trivial programs) | 
|  | - precise exception support (EIP is computed correctly in most cases) | 
|  | - more precise LDT/GDT/IDT emulation | 
|  | - faster segment load in vm86 mode | 
|  | - direct chaining of basic blocks (faster emulation) | 
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|  | version 0.1.6: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - automatic library search system. QEMU can now work with unpatched | 
|  | ELF dynamic loader and libc (Rusty Russell). | 
|  | - ISO C warning fixes (Alistair Strachan) | 
|  | - first self-virtualizable version (works only as long as the | 
|  | translation cache is not flushed) | 
|  | - RH9 fixes | 
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|  | version 0.1.5: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - ppc64 support + personality() patch (Rusty Russell) | 
|  | - first Alpha CPU patches (Falk Hueffner) | 
|  | - removed bfd.h dependency | 
|  | - fixed shrd, shld, idivl and divl on PowerPC. | 
|  | - fixed buggy glibc PowerPC rint() function (test-i386 passes now on PowerPC). | 
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|  | version 0.1.4: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - more accurate VM86 emulation (can launch small DOS 16 bit | 
|  | executables in wine). | 
|  | - fixed push/pop fs/gs | 
|  | - added iret instruction. | 
|  | - added times() syscall and SIOCATMARK ioctl. | 
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|  | version 0.1.3: | 
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|  | - S390 support (Ulrich Weigand) | 
|  | - glibc 2.3.x compile fix (Ulrich Weigand) | 
|  | - socketcall endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | 
|  | - struct sockaddr endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | 
|  | - sendmsg/recvmsg endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | 
|  | - execve endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | 
|  | - fdset endian fix (Ulrich Weigand) | 
|  | - partial setsockopt syscall support (Ulrich Weigand) | 
|  | - more accurate pushf/popf emulation | 
|  | - first partial vm86() syscall support (can be used with runcom example). | 
|  | - added bound, cmpxchg8b, cpuid instructions | 
|  | - added 16 bit addressing support/override for string operations | 
|  | - poll() fix | 
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|  | version 0.1.2: | 
|  |  | 
|  | - compile fixes | 
|  | - xlat instruction | 
|  | - xchg instruction memory lock | 
|  | - added simple vm86 example (not working with QEMU yet). The 54 byte | 
|  | DOS executable 'pi_10.com' program was released by Bertram | 
|  | Felgenhauer (more information at http://www.boo.net/~jasonp/pipage.html). | 
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|  | version 0.1.1: | 
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|  | - glibc 2.2 compilation fixes | 
|  | - added -s and -L options | 
|  | - binary distribution of x86 glibc and wine | 
|  | - big endian fixes in ELF loader and getdents. | 
|  |  | 
|  | version 0.1: | 
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|  | - initial public release. |